World: Norodom Sihanouk: A Once and Future Prince

Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's curious appearance at the United
Nations last week, on behalf of a government that he had never liked
and that had ceased to exist, can be explained simply: he hates the
Vietnamese more than he hated the Khmer Rouge regime of Premier Pol
Pot, which had ruled Cambodia for four years until its overthrow by
Vietnamese-backed rebel forces last week. For most of that time,
Sihanouk had been kept under virtual house arrest in Phnom-Penh. Two
weeks ago, Pol Pot sent for the Prince and asked him to go to the U.N.
to protest the Vietnamese invasion....